Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
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You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Friends come and go but I wouldn’t have thought you’d be one of them.
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It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
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Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.
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